This goal of this University of South Carolina project is to improve the turbine community's ability to predict the formation of nitrous oxides (NOx) in next generation high hydrogen turbines. The applicant will reach this goal by developing improved models that account for overlooked NOx formation pathways, which are currently unaccounted for because they are not well studied or understood.

Project Benefits

This project will focus on improving the ability to predict the formation of nitrous oxides (NOx) when using high hydrogen content fuels. Understanding NOx formation pathways will allow hydrogen combustor designers to reduce emissions while operating at higher temperatures. Specifically, a kinetic model will be developed and validated via data obtained from a high-pressure combustion system and a high-pressure laminar flow reactor, and then incorporated into a computational fluid dynamics model as both detailed and reduced models and also through a dynamic on the fly mechanism reduction approach.